LW5663A - Understanding Corporate Crime and Corruption | ||||||||||
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Course Aims | ||||||||||
Summary: The course begins by examining ways to explain the differences (and similarities) between corporate crime and other forms of deviance. Next follows a consideration of some historical turning-points in the development of corporate criminal liability. The discussion then analyses how different forms of corporate wrongdoing can be criminalised and the proof difficulties within these developments. We highlight some challenges in regulating corporate wrongdoing by examining selected substantive and procedural issues from white collar & corporate criminal law. This review covers unique developments such as the confiscation of assets and the reversing of some fundamental evidentiary presumptions. An important matter will be the way criminal sanctions and punishment require adaption when applied to corporate offending. Particular attention is given to money-laundering and how financial corruption is tied to corporate crime. The case study of data fraud and global financial crisis is explored. Consideration of how COVID 19 has changed market/economic conditions so that the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate market risk taking is even less clear. The focus moves to globalised corporate crime and future trends will introduce the importance of law in maintaining market arrangements. Of special importance is understanding how digital commerce and platform economies open new opportunities for corporate crime and corruption, and how these need to be addressed through trans-national legal approaches. | ||||||||||
Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information) | ||||||||||
Continuous Assessment: 100% | ||||||||||
Detailed Course Information | ||||||||||
| LW5663A.pdf | ||||||||||